Who's trading in their Iphone for Fuze?

[jamespaulritter]

itunes is pretty awesome. I checked out the windows at&t appstore on my fuze and its pretty lame

[JFSikora]

I was digging the Fuze for the first few days... until dust got under my screen, the battery cover started getting creaky while typing, and performance was just ehhh... sad to say I have moved on already. And yes I had to different ones. And the second one came with dust already under the screen! HTC seems to have some major manufacturing issues. Very disappointed. Just proves how solid the iPhone really is.

[legendofdon]

For some reason I'm incredibly tempted by the Fuze...I'm not sure why, I got sick of slider phones a long time ago, which is why I have my BB but while I've been considering an iPhone, the Fuze came onto my radar. I really like the look and feel of it, but I wish there was a way to give it a decent test drive other than paying $500 for it and returning it within the 30 days if I don't like it.

[JFSikora]

Originally Posted by legendofdon

For some reason I'm incredibly tempted by the Fuze...I'm not sure why, I got sick of slider phones a long time ago, which is why I have my BB but while I've been considering an iPhone, the Fuze came onto my radar. I really like the look and feel of it, but I wish there was a way to give it a decent test drive other than paying $500 for it and returning it within the 30 days if I don't like it.

Don't do it... trust me. I wanted so much to like the Fuze but it really does fall short. That's just my opinion though.

[legendofdon]

Originally Posted by Bad Ash

Don't do it... trust me. I wanted so much to like the Fuze but it really does fall short. That's just my opinion though.

Well I've been poking around at the wmexperts site and to get the Fuze up to where the iPhone or BlackBerry is as far as ease of use (IMO) you need to be doing a lot of tweaking, and I don't want to have to mod the crap out of my phone to make it run smoothly. It should do that out of the box.

[JFSikora]

Originally Posted by legendofdon

Well I've been poking around at the wmexperts site and to get the Fuze up to where the iPhone or BlackBerry is as far as ease of use (IMO) you need to be doing a lot of tweaking, and I don't want to have to mod the crap out of my phone to make it run smoothly. It should do that out of the box.

Exactly, to get it to be smooth you are looking at flashing the ROM for sure.

[legendofdon]

Originally Posted by Bad Ash

Exactly, to get it to be smooth you are looking at flashing the ROM for sure.

Eh, not interested in that...almost gave myself a heart attack when I upgraded the OS on my Curve, I thought I'd bricked it.

Why can't updating an OS be as easy as it is for the iPhone?

[jamespaulritter]

Well that didn't last long. The fuze is going back and my refurb iphone will be here Wednesday. I have been round and round with the lousy GPS on the fuze. I have tried every hack and tweak in the book but hours of effort seem to only allow GPS to work when its not deathly needed. Most days if I'm just trying to find a new store its fine but MAN,,,, if your late for a party and you took a wrong turn its a guarantee that the Fuze's GPS will shoot cr@ps!

So,,,, 3 years with Palm OS, 3 years with Windows Mobile PPC and 3 weeks with OS X and I'm happy to come back to something that works as it should.

[JFSikora]

Originally Posted by jamespaulritter

Well that didn't last long. The fuze is going back and my refurb iphone will be here Wednesday. I have been round and round with the lousy GPS on the fuze. I have tried every hack and tweak in the book but hours of effort seem to only allow GPS to work when its not deathly needed. Most days if I'm just trying to find a new store its fine but MAN,,,, if your late for a party and you took a wrong turn its a guarantee that the Fuze's GPS will shoot cr@ps!

So,,,, 3 years with Palm OS, 3 years with Windows Mobile PPC and 3 weeks with OS X and I'm happy to come back to something that works as it should.

I'm not going to say I warned you...

[Dooks88]

Although the Fuze looks great and is feature rich, I just can't stand windows mobile. It's horrible.